Владимир Соловьев и философия Серебряного века

The focus of the author's attention is the work of V.S. Solovyov, who had a strong influence on the development of both philosophical thought in Russia in the last century, and especially on the culture of the Silver Age. Under the influence of Solovyov's ideas, the views of S.N. and E.N. Trubetskikh, N.O. Lossky, S.L. Frank, N.A. Berdyaeva, P.A. Florensky, S.N. Bulgakov, D.S. Merezhkovsky and others. Romantic aestheticism, characteristic of Solovyov, with his cult of eternal femininity, largely determined the atmosphere of the Silver Age, primarily the poetry of symbolism; the chiliastic utopia of the `this-worldly transformation of the universe`, which united Solovyov with Dostoevsky, resulted in the pre-revolutionary years in a movement towards radical religious renewal, which received the name of the `new religious consciousness` (D.S. Merezhkovsky, N.A. Berdyaev, V.V. Rozanov and etc.). The analysis of Russian thought is given by the author in the broad context of European philosophy of the 19th-20th centuries, starting with the Enlightenment and German idealism and ending with neo-Kantianism, the philosophy of life of A. Bergson and F. Nietzsche, phenomenology and existentialism. The publication is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the problems of philosophy, national history and culture.

Fragments of M.A. Vrubel `Defeated Demon`.